BadSuccessor: Abusing dMSA to Escalate Privileges in Active Directory

Akamai researchers found a privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Server 2025 that allows attackers to compromise any user in Active Directory...

A proxyjacking campaign is looking for vulnerable SSH servers

A researcher at Akamai has posted a blog about a worrying new trend--proxyjacking--where criminals sell your bandwidth to a third-party proxy service. To understand how proxyjacking works, well need to explain a few things. There are several legitimate services that pay users to share their surpl...

Digging Deeper – An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Network

Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various types of malicious activities, such as phishing, web proxying, malware delivery, and malware communication, behind an ever-changing network of compromised hosts acting as proxies. The Fast Flux network concept was first introduced in...

Akamai Talks Massive Uptick in Credential-Stuffing Attacks Against Bank APIs

Cybercriminals continue to firehose financial services companies with new and innovative cyberattacks. Research from Akamai recently found that up to 75 percent of all credential abuse attacks against the financial services industry in 2019 targeted APIs directly rather than user-facing login...

Buggy Phishing Kits Allow Criminals to Cannibalize Their Own

They say it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, but in cybercrime terms, perhaps it should be called a “phish-eat-phish” situation. Researchers recently discovered that several widely used phishing kits harbor vulnerabilities that can be exploited by other criminals to hijack operations – and...

What You Need To Know: "SNIPR" Credential Stuffing Tool

Overview Credential abuse CA is a trend that is here to stay. It affects almost every one of us. There are attackers trying to break into every online account and the vast majority of these attacks are happening silently in the background. In the past, credential abuse tools were written and...

Fast Flux Botnet: Research Results

Just like that, another Akamai Edge has come and gone. If you were able to join us this year, I hope you had a chance to stop by my presentation on Threat Intelligence Insights: An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Botnet. In short, Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various type...